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From: snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe)
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:11:19 +0100
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Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> wrote:

> On 23/09/2024 23:45, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
> >    Hey, want "Real Computing" ? Try FORTRAN
> >    or COBOL. THOSE were the foundation and
> >    persist to this day. Wrote a FORTRAN app
> >    just a couple of years ago - mostly to vex
> >    the New Guys. Also a short COBOL app, that
> >    oughtta REALLY give 'em the shits !  :-)
> 
> Back in 1985, I changed jobs from a University computer center, where we
> did our technical documentation using Univac's @DOC processor, to a 
> small industrial computer system integration firm, where we built 
> real-time systems on RSX-11M. I missed the @DOC so much that I wrote a
> re-implementation in FORTRAN IV. Used it for years afterwards, until I
> landed at a larger house doing communications work on Unix, and switched
> to /troff/.
>

No mention of ALGOL, the ALGorithmic Language?  It was contemporaneous
with both FORmula TRANslator and COmmon Business-Oriented Language.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL>

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